CLASS

Amy Matthews

Babies Project | 15 W. 26th Street, 10th floor New York, NY 10010

December 9 & 10 2017 Saturday & Sunday, 9:30am-5pm

$400 full price, $375 early registration (member price $375, early registration $350)

These weekends are opportunities to experientially explore different topics in developmental movement, somatic practices, physiology, anatomy, kinesiology and embryology. No prerequisites. The Bartenieff Fundamentals are conceived of as building blocks of movement, the basic actions of our spine and limbs that underlie any physical practice and our activities of daily life. With the Fundamentals we can observe and analyze any movement, cultivate awareness of habitual patterns, and develop strategies for repatterning. In this workshop we will look at the basic movements that make up the Fundamentals, and explore the different ways they can be used to clarify pathways in the body, to cultivate dynamic alignment and to maximize our ability to move efficiently.

Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a yoga therapist and yoga teacher. Amy co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics), and together Amy and Leslie led The Breathing Project’s Advanced Studies Program. Amy co-taught the BMC® & Yoga programs in NYC (with Roxlyn Moret) and in Berkeley, CA (with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen) for the School for Body-Mind Centering, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years. She has taught embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in New York, Philadelphia, Florida, Nebraska, and Berkeley, CA in the USA, and internationally in Canada, Israel, Ireland, England, Slovakia, Switzerland and Japan. Amy also works privately as a yoga teacher and movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). Amy is certified as a yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops, and studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd, and BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.

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